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Battle  of  Lake  George 

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Compiled  by  the  Committee  on  Historical 
Documents  and  Lake  George  Memorial 
Committee  of  the  Society  of  Colonial 
Wars  in   the   State  of   New   York 


The  Lake  George  Memorial  Coniiiiirtee  requests  each 

member  of  the  Society  who  had  an  ancestor,  or  relative,  in 

the  Battle  of  Lake  George  to  prepare  a  brief  sketch  of  his 

life  and  services  in  this  battle,  giving  references,  so  far  as 

possible,  to  printed  authorities.     These  sketches  should  be 

sent  to 

Morris  F.  Ferris, 

Secretary  of  Committee, 

38  Park  Row, 

New  York. 


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References  to  Samuel  HliKlj;ett's  Map  of  the 
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historical  value,  lilodgctt  appears  to  have  Iwjen  a  sutler  for 
the  rangers.     His  name  occurs  three  years  after. 


Preface  and  Appeal. 


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THE  Committee  on  Historical  Documents  and  the 
Lake  George  Memorial  Committee  have  prepared 
die  followmg  brief  sketch  of  the  Battle  of  Lake 
Creorge,  to  refresh  die  minds  and  to  arouse  the 
interest  of  the  members  of  the  Society  of  ColoniaWars  in 
that  most  important  Colonial  event. 

The   pen   picture   has   been  supplemented    by  copies 
of   contemporary   maps    showing  {he   exact    location^  of 

etu3""hf  "  k'n  . '"  addition,  a  hitherto  unpublished 
return  of  the  "killed,  wounded,  and  missing"  has   been 

Hams'  US  T  P^^-^i^--  Captain  Ep^hraim   Wil- 
iiams,    U.    S.   A.,    a   member   of  the   Committee    and  a 

ST'th;P'7  of  Col.  Ephraim  Williams,  who  wa 
killed    in   the   action    at   the    head   of   his   troops. 

1  he  erection  of  a  suitable  monument  in  com- 
memoration of  the  Battle  of  Lake  George,  is  a  wo^k 
which  should  appeal  to  every  Colonial  Warrior  and 
particularly  to  members  of  the  New  York  Society 
There  are  few  events  of  the  French  and  Indian  Wafs 
which   took  place  on   New   York   soil,   and   fewer  sti 

tTSm''  ,rv^^  "^  r^^"   commemorate   a  vLtory. 
a^reld   to   f        K  ^L"'^'    I"^P''°^^"^ent   Association   has 

wm  t  T'^^u'^f  '•'"  ^'^^°"^  ^^Pe"se  to  us.  It 
mL       on   the   battle   ground    itself,   close   by   the   old 

e^Srin^":^'  ^^"^  ?'"  ^^'^^^^  ^he  Association  ^ 
endeavoring  to  secure  the  entire  battlefield  for  preser- 
vation as  a  public  park.  ^ 

its  J^IT'F'^  of  the  proposed  monument  speaks  for 

of  the  Indiln '^R^°'.  '^t  'T'  "^"^^^^^^«  the  incident 
iThnc  u     J    Hendrick,    demonstrating    to    General 

Johnson       the  danger  of  dividing  his  for?es. 

Ihe  monument  is  to  be  about  forty  feet  high  and 
standing  at  the  head  of  the  Lake,  midway  between 
the  wo  sides,  will  be  seen  for  maAy  miles  and  ^H 
be  distinctly  in  view  to  all  travellers'^  Lake  GeoTge 
by  steamboat  and  rail.  'jeorge 


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We  commemorate  a  most  important  event,  and  we 
should  do  it  worthily.  The  Society  may  be  sure  that 
the  money  solicited  by  the  Committee  will  be  well 
applied. 

We  appeal  to  you  to  subscribe  at  once  and  as 
generously  as  possible,  so  that  the  sculptor  may  proceed 
with  the  work  expeditiously.  It  is  calculated  that  the 
preparation  of  the  monument  will  consume  about  a  year 
and  a  half,  and  it  is  the  desire  of  the  Committee  to 
dedicate  it  on  the  anniversary  of  the  victory,  Septem- 
ber 8th,  1898,  and  to  have  the  dedication  one  of  most 
imposing  ceremjny,  to  be  ever  memorable  in  the  annals 
of  the  Society. 

Committee  on  Historical  Documents. 
Abraham  B.  Valentine,  Historian,  Chairman  Ex-Officio. 

Edward  F.  Delancey,  Isaac  Myer, 

Henry  Harmon  Noble,  Edward  Trenchard, 

J.  Bleecker  Miller. 

Lake  George  Memorial  Committee. 
Howland  Pell,  Chairman. 


Frederic  J.  De  Peyster, 
Captain  Ephraim  Williams, 
George  Comstock  Baker, 
George  May  Elwood, 
Philip  Livingston, 
Madison  Grant, 


Frederick  Clarkson, 
Abraham  Bates  Valentine, 
Cyrus  Kingsbury  Remington, 
Colonel  Frederick  D.  Grant, 
Philip  Rhinelander, 
Edgar  Cotrell  Leonard, 


Morris  Patterson  Ferris,  Secretary, 
38  Park  Row,  New  York. 

Subscriptions  should  be  sent  to 

Frederick  Clarkson,  Esq.,  Treasurer, 

Lake  George  Memorial  Committee, 

Care  Society  of  Colonial  Wars, 
45  William  Street,  New  York. 


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Battle  of  Lake  George. 

IN  1754,  a  grand  expedition  against  the  French  was 
planned,  which  was  to  utterly  extinguish  all  their 
rights  in  America.  General  Edward  Braddock  was 
made  Commander-in-Chief,  with  Governor  Shirley  and 
Sir   William   Pepperrell   next   in    command. 

The  French  forts  in  Arcadia  were  to  be  taken.  Crown 
Point  reduced,  the  French  driven  from  the  Ohio  Valley, 
and  Fort  Niagara  possessed  by  the  English. 

The  first  great  effort  made  by  General  Braddock 
against  Fort  Du  Quesne  resulted  so  disastrously,  that  it 
was  only  the  skill  and  courage  of  Colonel  George 
Washington,  which  saved  the  defeated  army  from  total 
annihilation  at  the  hands  of  the  French  and  their  Indian 
allies. 

General  Shirley's  forces  were  so  dismayed  by  the 
news  from  Braddock,  that  the  expedition  against  Fort 
Niagara,  which  had  been  placed  in  his  hands,  was 
abandoned. 

Colonel  William  Johnson,  an  Irishman,  who,  coming 
to  America  in  1738  to  manage  the  large  estates  of  his 
uncle,  Sir  Peter  Warren,  in  the  Mohawk  Valley,  had 
ingratiated  himself  with  the  Mohawk  Indians,  and  pos- 
sessed enormous  influence  over  them,  was  appointed 
Major-General  to  lead  the  expedition  against  Crown 
Point.  Albany  was  selected  as  the  rendezvous,  and 
the  troops  from  the  different  colonies  gathered  there. 
Among  the  officers,  taking  part  in  the  expedition, 
afterwards  distinguished,  were  Major-General  Phineas 
Lyman,  Colonels  Ephraim  Williams,  Timothy  Ruggles, 
Lieutenant-Colonels,  Nathan  Whiting,  Seth  Pomeroy, 
Captains  Philip  Schuyler,  and  Israel  Putnam. 


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About    the    first   of   August,   Major-General    Lyman 
led   the   advance    up  the  river  and  commenced  building 
a  large  fort,  first  named  Lyman,  afterwards  Fort  Edward, 
in  honor  of  Edward,  brother  of  George  the   Third,  and 
a  few  days  later.  General  Johnson  left  Albany  with  the 
remainder  of  the  troops,  artillery  and  stores,  accompanied 
by    King     Hendrick    and     his    Mohawk    warriors.      A 
report  reaching  the   General  that  the  French  were  concen- 
trated at  Fort  St.   Frederick  (Crown  Point)  with  an  army 
of  six  thousand  men,  and  intended  to  fortify  Ticonderoga 
(the    short    carry   between    Lake    Chsinplain    and    Lake 
St.  Sacrament),  a  council  of    War   at   once  decided  that 
the   advance    should    be    made    along   the    road   to    St. 
Sacrament.     General     Johnson    reached    there   with    the 
first   fifteen    hundred   men     on   the    28th,   and    immedi- 
ately went  into  camp  at  the  head  of   the   Lake,  which 
he  rechristened    Lake   George,  in   honor   of  his    Majesty 
and  to  assert  his  right  of    dominion  there. 

On  the  third  of  September  the  Baron  de  Dieskau, 
Commander  of  the  French  forces  in  Canada,  moved 
down  from  Fort  St.  Frederick  to  Ticonderoga  to  begin 
work  on  the  line  of  fortifications,  which  he  purposed 
establishing  southward.  Information  coming  of  the 
building  of  Fort  Lyman,  he  at  once  embarked  with  a 
detachment  of  two  hundred  and  sixty  French  Grena- 
diers, eight  hundred  Canadians  and  seven  hundred  In- 
dians, sailing  down  Lake  Champlain  in  canoes  to  South 
Bay,  thence  marching  across  the  country,  encamping 
within  a  league  of  Fort  Lyman  on  the  evening  of  the 
7th,  intending  to  surprise  the  Fort  the  next  day.  The 
Indian  chiefs  were  called  together  to  be  informed  of 
the  plan  of  attack  and  to  be  assigned  their  positions. 
They  retired  for  consultation,  and  soon  returned  with  the 
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oldest,  the  rest  of  the  Indians  would  be  obliged  to  fol- 
low their  example.  They  gave  as  their  reason  that  they 
"had  resolved  not  to  act  against  the  English  on  their  own 
territory;  but  if  the  General  would  lead  them  against 
the  English  camp  at  Lake  St.  Sacrament,  which  was  un- 
doubtedly on  French  soil,  they  would  follow  him  there." 
Accordingly,  yielding  to  the  whim  of  their  Indian 
allies,  always  loath  to  face  the  cannon  of  a  fort,  the 
French  moved  on  toward  the  Lake.  After  marching 
some  hours  a  prisoner  was  taken  who  stated  that 
General  Johnson  had  heard  of  the  contemplated  attack 
on  Fort  Lyman,  and  had  detached  one  thousand  men 
who  were  on  their  way  to  reinforce  it.  Dieskau  at 
once  ordered  the  Canadians  to  move  forward  about 
three  hundred  paces  on  the  right,  and  there  to  lie  flat 
on  the  ground.  He  ordered  the  Indians  forward  to 
take  a  similar  position  on  the  left,  holding  back  the 
French  regulars  in  the  centre.  No  gun  was  to  be 
fired  until  the  English  had  reached  the  end  of  the  cul 
de  sac  and  then  the  volley  from  the  French  in  front 
was  to  be  supplemented  by  the  fire  of  the  Indians  and 
Canadians  on  either  flank,  who  were  to  close  up  the 
rear,  leaving  no  escape  for  the  entrapped  English. 

General  Johnson's  forces  in  the  camp  on  the  Lake, 
consisted  of  about  three  thousand  provincials  and  two 
hundred  and  fifty  Indians.  Early  in  the  morning  of 
the  eighth  of  September  a  Council  of  war  was  called, 
rumors  having  reached  the  camp  of  the  proposed  attack 
on  Fort  Lyman.  It  was  not  known  exactly  where  the 
French  were,  but  it  was  proposed  to  send  a  force  of 
five  hundred  men  to  the  assistance  of  the  Fort. 
Hendrick  was  consulted  and  replied :  "  If  they  are  to 
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then  proposed  to  divide  the  forces  into  three  parties 
Hendrick  thereupon  picked  up  several  arrows  and 
handing  one  of  them  to  General  Johnson,  asked  him 
to  break  it.  This  he  did  readily.  Hendrick  then  put 
three  arrows  together  and  handed  them  to  General 
Johnson,  saying,  "Put  them  together  and  you  cant 
break  them;  take  them  one  by  one  and  you  will  break 
them  easily."     Hendrick's  argument  was  convincing. 

Colonel  Ephraim  Williams  was  placed  in  command 
of  the  troops  and  they  set  out  in  two  divisions.  Colonel 
Williams  leading  the  first.  Lieutenant  Colonel  Whiting 
the  second.  King  Hendrick  on  horseback  at  the  head 
of  a  band   of  two  hundred  and  fifty  Mohawks,  preceded 

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They  proceeded  to  Rocky  Brook,  where  the  French 
and   Indians    lay   in  ambush  awaiting    them.     Knowing 
nothing    of     the     change    of   plans    of     the     French 
whom   they   supposed   near  Fort  Lyman,  they  sent  out 
no    scouts,   but    marched  directly   into  the    death  trap. 
An  accident  only  saved  them.     Some   of   the   Senecas, 
with  the  French   forces,  espieing  their  Mohawk  brethren 
fired  their    muskets  into  the   air  as  a  warning  of    the 
ambuscade.     Then  the  war-whoop  sounded,  follov^ed  by 
the  discharge  of  musketry  from  behind  rocks  and  trees. 
Colonel   Williams  at  once   spread  out  the   men  on  the 
hill  to  the   right,   and  took    his    position  on  the    rock 
on  which  now   rests  his  monument.     He  soon  fell,  and 
almost  at    the    same  time    Hendrick's    horse  was    shot 
from    under  him,   and    being    unwieldly  he   could   not 
recover  himself,  and  was  stabbed  to  death  with  a  bayonet. 
Lieutenant-Colonel   Whiting  succeeded  to  the    corn- 
mand.     He  saw  the  danger  of  his  men  and  '^^^^^^'^^f^ 
ordered  a  retreat,  which  he  conducted  so   skilfUlly  that 


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he  saved  the  greater  part  of  his  force.  The  noise 
of  the  firing  was  heard  at  Lake  George,  and  General 
Johnson  despatching  Lieutenant-Colonel  Cole  with  three 
hundred  men  to  support  and  protect  the  retreat,  set  to 
work  with  the  utmost  vigor  with  all  his  remammg 
forces  to  construct  defences  for  his  camp,  preparing 
a  breastwork  of  felled  trees  and  wagons,  and  hauling 
up  and  placing  in  position  such  cannon  as  he  had  to 
cover  the  river  road  and  approaches. 

It  had  been  Dieskau's  purpose  to  rush  forward  and 
enter  the  camp  with  the  fugitives;  but  the  Iroquois 
took  possession  of  a  rising  ground  and  remamed  in- 
active. The  other  Indians  also  halted,  and  a  few  shots 
from  the  cannon  soon  drove  them  all  to  cover  in  the 
swamps  at  either  side,  and  left  the  French  Commander 
and  his  veteran  regulars  unsupported.  As  the  regulars 
advanced,  they  halted  suddenly  about  one  hundred  and 
fifty  yards  from  the  breastworks,  trying  to  call  the 
Indians  to  their  aid.  Failing  in  this,  they  again 
advanced,   firing  by  platoons. 

Early  in  the  battle,  General  Johnson  received  a 
wound  in  the  thigh,  and  retired  to  his  tent,  the  com- 
mand  then  devolving  upon  General  Lyman,  who  behaved 

with  great  bravery. 

The  fire  from  the  French  made  but  little  impression, 
while  the  artillery  under  the  command  of  Captain  Eyre, 
played  upon  them  with  great  effect.  Dieskau,  finding 
it  impossible  to  break  the  centre,  moved  to  the  right, 
and  attacked  the  regiments  under  Colonels  Ruggles, 
Williams  and  Titcomb.  The  three  regiments  resisted 
the  attack  resolutely  and  maintained  a  hot  fire 
upon  the  enemy.  At  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
about  seven  hours  after  the  attack  in  the  morning,  the 
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was  theirs,  jumped  over  the  breastworks  with  their 
Indian  allies,  and  charged  upon  the  French,  who  pre- 
cipitately  retreated,  leaving  most  of  their  regular  troops 
dead  upon  the  field.  Some  prisoners  were  taken  by 
the  Colonials,  including  Baron  Dieskau,  who  had  been 
wounded.  He  was  taken  to  General  Johnson's  tent, 
where  only  the  General's  great  influence  prevented 
his  being  seized  by  the  Indians  to  expiate  with  fire 
the   deaths  of  King  Hendrick   and   the  other   Mohawk 

Chiefs. 

Colonel   Blanchard,    at   Fort   Lyman,    havmg    heard 
the   firing,   despatched    two    hundred   and   fifty   men   of 
the   New   Hampshire   and   New  York   regiments,  under 
Captain  Maginness,  to  the  assistance  of  General  Johnson. 
Arriving    at   the    place    of   the    morning    conflict,    they 
came    upon    the    enemy's     abandoned     baggage     lying 
in   the    road,  and   advancing,   soon   caught   sight   of  the 
Canadians  and   Indians,  about  three   hundred  in  number, 
sitting   by    Rocky     Brook,    refreshing    themselves    from 
their   packs.     They   fell   upon   them   furiously,  and  soon 
few  were  left  to  tell  the  tale.     The  number  of  the  slain 
was   very   great.     Their    bodies    were    thrown    into    the 
pond,  which  became   so  tinged   with  blood,  that  it  was 
thereafter   known   as    "Bloody   Pond." 

The  Battle  of  Lake  George,  comprising  three  en- 
gagements, was  thus  victoriously  ended.  General  John- 
son, in  his  official  reports,  estimates  the  loss  of  the 
French  at  more  than  five  hundred.  It  included  La 
Gardeur  de  St.  Pierre,  who  had  defeated  Washington 
on  the  Ohio  the  preceding  year.  The  Colonial  troops 
lost  two  hundred  and  sixty-two,  besides  officers  and 
thirty-eight  Indians.  In  addition  to  Colonel  Williams 
and  King  Hendrick,  Colonel  Titcomb,  Major  Ashley, 
Captains  Keyes,  Porter,  Ingersoll,   and  twelve  others  were 


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days   after   in   camp. 

The  importance  of  this  victory  cannot  be  over-esti- 
mated. It  came  Hke  a  burst  of  sunshine  through  the 
clouds  of  defeat  and  disaster,  which  had  overhung  the 
colonists,  and  inspired  them  with  the  zeal  and  energy 
which  drove  the  French  power  and  dominion  from  the 
country.  It  prevented  the  French  from  gaining  posses- 
sion of  the  waterways,  and  so  controlling  the  natural 
line  of  travel  from  New  York  to  Canada  and  the  Ohio 
region,  by  way  of  the  Great  Lake  System. 

It  was  the  first  great  and  successful  battle  fought 
wholly  by  the  provincial  troops,  and  the  most  important 
fought  on  New  York  soil  prior  to  the  Revolution.  It 
taught  the  farmer  soldiers  their  power  when  pitted  against 
the  soldiers  of  the  Old  World,  and  gave  them  the 
confidence  in  themselves,  which  served  them  so  well 
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Returns  of  the  Killed,  Wounded  and  Missing,  after 
the  Engagement  in  the  Morning  of  the  Subsequent 
Attack  .n  the  Camp  between  the  Colony  Provincial 
Troops  under  the  Command  of  Major  General  Johnson 
&  the  French  Regulars,  Canadians  and  Indians  under 
the  Command  (of)  the  Baron  de  Dieskau,  Commander- 
in-Chief  of  the  French  Kinj^^'s  Troops  in   Canada. 

Major  General  Johnson,  wounded  in  the  hip. 

Killed.    Wounded.     Miss'g. 
1.  Massachusetts  Reg. 

Commanded   by 

Col.  Tim.  Ruggles. 
Cap't   Solomon  Keys?  : 

Lieut.  Nathan  Gilbert 
Lieut  Joshua  Williams  :    5 

Ensign  John   Tindell 
Ensign  Joseph   Brintnall         : 
Lieut.  Thompson  1 

13  Non  Commiss'd  officers 
&  15  private    men 

2  Massachusetts  Reg't 

Commanded   by 

Col.  Moses  Titcomb 
Col.  Moses  Titcomb 
Lieut,     (no  name  given) 

1  Sergt.  &  6  Privates 
Major  NichoUs 

2  Lieuts.  &  1  Ensign 
Privates 
2    Sergt's,    3     Corp's      1 

Drum'r  &  19  Privates  25 


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3  Massachusetts  Reg't 
Commanded  by 
Col.  Eph'm  Williams 

Col.  Eph.  Williams 
Major  Noah  Ashley 
Capt.  Moses  Porter 
Capt.  Ingersole 
Lieut.   Simon  Cobb 
Lieut.   Dan'l  Pomroy 
Lieut.   Nath'l   Burt 
Ensign  John  Stratton 
Ensign  Reuben  Wait 
Serg'ts,  Corp'ls  &  Privates 
Capts.    Simon    Davis    & 

Elisha  Hawley 
Ensign  Josiah  Williams 
Serg'ts,  Corp'ls  &  Privates 

Missing 

1  Connecticut  Reg't 
Commanded  by 
Major  Gen'l  Lyman. 


Killed.    Wounded.    Miss'g. 


32 


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23 


Lieut.  James  Jones 

1 

Serg'ts,  Corp'ls,  Drum's  & 

Privates 

8 

Serg'ts  &  Private 

Privates 

2  Reg't 

Commanded  by 

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Col.  Goodrich. 

Lieut.  Thos.  Barnham 

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Killed.    Wounded.    Miss'g. 

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15 


Rhode  Island  Reg't 

4  Serg'ts,  2  Corp'ls  & 

14  Privates  20 

Privates 
Missing 

3  Connecticut  Comp'l  (?)  of 
New  York  Reg't. 

Privates  7 

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"Of  the   British  Allied   Indians  killed  and   missing 

among   whom   is  Hendrick    the   Great  Mohock 

Sachem  &  another  great  Sachem  of  the  said  Castle 
Killed  in  all  32 — Wounded  12.  The  upper  Mohock 
Castle  sustained  the  Greatest  loss  many  chief  Warriors 
were  killed  &  others  wounded.  Capt.  Farrell,  Capt. 
Stoddert,  Capt.  Magin  and  Capt.  Stevens  Indian 
Officers  all   killed  in  the  Morning  Engagement. 

In  the  Engagement,  toward  the  evening  between 
the  Detachm't  of  the  New  Hampshire  &  New 
York  Reg'ts  from  the  Camp  at  the  Great  Carrying 
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account  yet  obtained  2  killed,  ii  wounded  &  5 
missing.  The  brave  Capt.  Maginis  who  commanded 
this  party  died  two  days  after  of  his  wounds  in  this  Camp. 
The  French  General  the  Baron  de  Dieskau  taken 
prisoner  &  very  badly  wounded.  His  Aid-de-Camp 
surrendered  himself  the  same  night.  The  Baron  says 
his  Major  General  was  killed,  as  was  Mons'r  St. 
Pierre  who  commanded  the  Indians,  many  other  of 
the  Enemies  Chief  Officers  reported  by  the  Prisoners 
to  be  either  killed    or  wounded. 

P(eter)    W(raxall) 
A  De  Camp   to   Gen'l   Johnson. 

(Endorsed.) 

Returns  of  the  Killed,  Wounded  & 
Missing  of  the  Troops  encamped  at  Lake  George  after 
the  Actions  on  the  8  Sept.,  1755. 

(Endorsed  again.) 

Returns  of  the  Killed,  Wounded  & 
Missing  in  the  Provincial  Troops  under  the  Command 
of  Major  Gen'l  Johnson  after  the  Engagement  of 
the  Morning  and  the  Subsequent  attack  on  the  Camp 
the  8  Sept.  1755  between  the  said  Troops  &  the 
French  Regulars,  the  Canadians  &  Indians  under  the 
Command  of  Mons'r  Le  Baron  de  Dieskau  General 
&  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  French  King's  Troops 
in  Canada. 


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